Re: lilypond too noisy on the cmd line

[Graham Percival]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:25:57AM -0500, David Santamauro wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 10:19:18 +0000
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1074
> > Patches appreciated.  Unfortunately I doubt that anything will
> > happen unless you personally work on it, but it's "on the books".
> 
> Question: Should the be_verbose_global variable control this? I'm not
> sure a new command line argument is really needed as long as it is
> agreed upon what verbose is and isn't.

> I added a be_quiet_global in my sandbox but reading the thread makes me
> think that simplification is needed and not an expansion.

Since we already have a be_verbose_global variable, I can't
imagine much serious objection to having a be_quiet_global.  My
initial guess would be that we want three different types of
output:
- verbose
- normal
- quiet

However, this is definitely outside my depth.

Cheers,
- Graham